using IE 7, updated
gmail (or iGoogle) is my homepage, which comes up with me logged in each time i open IE. For some unexplained reason, recently gmail will not show up and i am required to use their html version to view anything. i double-clicked the error on status bar and it says something along the lines of "Could not create object", and gmail directs me to a page telling me that activex is disabled.
i'm usually very good at solving problems, but this one i can't. i tried editing the Internet options using custom level and enabling everything to do with java, activex, or scripting. turns out none of those seem to be hindering the browser. my computer is clean of viruses/spyware/malware to my knowledge (from updated scans). I've gone to Add/Remove programs and "uninstall windows components" (unchecked IE) and reinstalled, but it seems that doesn't do a true uninstall. I've also tried the Reset option under advanced.
None of these helped. Any suggestions? The only thing I can think of that has been done recently is an attempted windows update that keeps failing, but i'd have to get home to my computer to be able to tell which it is. It's whatever the most recent update was from MS, something to do with XML security. My first thought is this update messed it up, but I can't get it to install, and I'm not sure why it won't.
I recall a Run command that you could use with the xp CD in the drive that will fix most anything to do with IE, but i don't remember it; perhaps someone could relay that to me?
